After reading a review of True Blood season 5 we shared with you the other day, we had high hopes for tomorrow’s premiere and subsequent episodes.

… Then we read this new review from People Magazine.

While generally positive, People calls the first few episodes great but messy:

The first episodes of season 5 are a mess, with little of the cohesion provided by last summer’s strong, seizing guest performance by Fiona Shaw. But the show is still crazily entertaining.

Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) and Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgard) are pawns in the growing fundamentalist vampire war. We’re ushered into oppressively corporate vampire headquarters and learn all sorts of silly arcana about these monsters. For example, did you know vampires can suffer developmental disabilities? This is revealed in a bizarre plot twist that plays like a sick joke.

Cast newcomer Christopher Meloni emerges from the shadows looking like a barrel-chested mobster, then retracts his fangs with an amusingly delicate click. As one of the show’s many vaguely defined über-vampires, he seems to be having a sly good time.

Beyond that, the plot just sloshes around. The werewolves, who are about as scary as pack dogs waiting for a sled, return for a funeral. And indefatigable Sookie Stackhouse (the terrific Anna Paquin) gets on with the business of dealing with the supernatural freaks crowding her porch.

Everyone will get to have their own review of the show when 5×01 “Turn! Turn! Turn!” premieres tomorrow at 9 PM ET/PT on HBO.

“The first episodes of season 5 are a mess, with little of the cohesion provided by last summer’s strong, seizing guest performance by Fiona Shaw.”
Last season was the definition of a mess so their positive review of it makes me question whether I should bother listening to their review of this season.

http://www.hypable.com/ Andrew Sims

I agree.. I thought the same thing.

darkl61

Does this mean that there finally going to introduce bubba since we find out that vampires can have developmental disabilities?

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